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BEIRUT (AP) — Turkey-backed Syrian rebels seized a number of villages and towns from Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria on Sunday amid Turkish airstrikes and shelling that killed at least 35 people, mostly civilians. That's according to rebels and a monitoring group. Turkey sent tanks across the border to help Syrian revels drive the Islamic State group out of the frontier town of Jarablus last week.
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's economy minister says free trade talks between the European Union and the United States have failed. Negotiations on the so-called Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP, have made little progress in recent years.
DURANT, Miss. (AP) — The man arrested in the killing of two nuns in Mississippi this week has a criminal record and is currently on probation. That's according to a spokeswoman for the Mississippi Department of Corrections. She says Rodney Earl Sanders was convicted of a felony DUI and sentenced on Feb. 23, 2015. He was later released from prison and is on probation. Sanders was also convicted of armed robbery in 1986 and served six years behind bars.
SINGAPORE (AP) — Officials say more than 40 people have been infected by the Zika virus in Singapore, but most have fully recovered. Singapore announced its first Zika infection in May, with the virus imported by a 48-year-old man who had traveled to Brazil. On Sunday, the Ministry of Health confirmed 41 locally transmitted cases of the virus.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is lashing out at inner-city violence saying "We cannot, as a society, tolerate this level of violence and suffering in our own cities." Trump says the fatal shooting in Chicago of NBA star Dwyane Wade's cousin as she was going to register her children for school "breaks our hearts. This shouldn't happen in America." He's reaching out to African-Americans saying he'll do something about what he calls the "deplorable conditions in many of our inner cities."
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